The Top Names of 2040: Predicted by Nameberry

📛Nameberry🍒, the premier go to for all things 👶baby 📛names and 📛name trends 📊  — just released their 🔮predictions for the future 🔝Top 🔟10 📛Names now until ⏩2040! 🤯 

How is this possible? 🤔 📛NB🍒 recently launched a, "new baby-naming tool, Berry Trends, which predicts the future popularity of names by applying machine learning technology to historic data. Owen Satran, who also created the Nameberry games and maps, built this tool by creating a proprietary algorithm that analyzes official and private data using an academic predictive formula. This is the tool that baby namers — and baby name experts — have always needed. Government statistics measure a name’s popularity last year, not today when you’re choosing a name, or in five years when your child is in kindergarten, or in 15 years when they’re in high school. And even Nameberry’s best predictions were based more on guesswork and trend analysis than on the vast amount of data and sophisticated algorithm that went into creating Berry Trends."

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Without further ado, here are 📛Nameberry🍒's predicted Top 10 girl and boy names for 2040:

📛NB🍒: The headlines: Charlotte is projected to vault to #1 next year and stay there for the foreseeable future. And today’s #1 Olivia falls off the Top 10. The Top 5 girl names of 2040 all rank in the Top 10 now. Eleanor, Violet, and Aurora lie just outside it.

Lucy and Isla are the surprise entrants to the Top 10. Lucy has been on an upward trajectory for 50 years but has never been a Top 10 name. Isla zoomed straight up the list in the noughties with the fame of actress Isla Fisher, but has transcended that association to become a star in its own right. Olivia’s fall is the smallest surprise in this data.

📛NB🍒: The biggest story on the boys’ side: Liam holds fast to his current #1 boy rank over the coming decades, becoming as durable a favorite as John, Michael, and Jacob. The boys’ list is in general more stable than the girls’. Seven of the boys’ the names in our projected 2040 Top 10 are there now, and Elias and Levi lie just outside it.

The one big outlier is Cooper, but it’s been rising consistently since the 1980s so the model suggests it will keep gathering steam.

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☔IRN📛's 🗣️Take: "Eh... 😕 I'm not surprised.  All of the names projected to be in the top 10 for girls and boys by 2040 are fine. But... that's the problem. There is no real change. 😒 Not one name stands out because it's so 🥳exciting, 🦄different or bold (on the girl's side, 📛Isla perhaps but it is hardly a new name to be seen, e.g. 🎥actress 📛Isla Fisher). I ✨wish the name 📛Unique at least was on the 💗girl's list. 😞 And although I 🙅🏾‍♀️ hate the name 📛Truce even that would be nice to even see on the 💙boy's list. 😅 I would think 14 years from now the most popular names would be more 🫢provocative and 🤩impressive, not the same names I've heard all my life. 🫠 I hope 📛Nameberry🍒's 🔮predictions are wrong ❌ but only ⏳time will tell what 📛names will be trending 📈 in ⏩2040. I hope that I am not 🙏🏾 praying for the return of Puritan names 😬 because as 🤪unhinged as most are — at least those names are 👀 eye-popping and truly unparalleled."🤷🏾‍♀️ 

The Top 10 Baby Names of 2025

📅Friday (5/8) 🌅morning I was greeted🤗 to this 📨email from the 

U.S. Social Security Administration announcing... 

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🥳Surprise?!

The full 📃list the SSA released on the Top 10 Baby Names of 2025 goes as follows:

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The only real surprise is that there's one new girl's name: 📛Eliana. ⏪2024's list had 📛Ava at #9.

📛Eliana is the Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of the French 📛Eliane (root: the Greek word Helios or sun. Probably from Aeliana, the feminine form of the Roman name Aelianus, which was derived from the Roman family name Aelius) and means: my God has answered.

I like the meaning of 📛Eliana's name but... I'm not a huge fan of the name 🤷🏾‍♀️ — though it is a pretty sounding name ✔ — and I do like 'E' names. ✔ It is nice to see a name with some 🌶spice enter into the Top 10 list this year. 👌🏾 But I ✨wish there was a truly 🦄unique or 😮outrageous name in one of the spots (male side included). 

Maybe in 2035? 😫 

📌👀Check out the video version: 🔝Top 10 👶Baby 📛Names of 2025 - Official List📃

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lzdMmycA_E

(☔IRN📛 rating: 👍🏾/👎🏾)

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Liam: 👍🏾

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Olivia: 👍🏾 

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Noah: 👍🏾 

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Charlotte: 👍🏾 

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Oliver: 👍🏾  

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Emma: 👍🏾

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Theodore: 👎🏾 

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Amelia: 👍🏾 

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Henry: 👎🏾 

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Sophia: 👍🏾 

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛James: 👍🏾 

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Mia: 👍🏾

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Elijah: 👍🏾 

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Isabella: 👍🏾 

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Mateo: 👍🏾 

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Evelyn: 👍🏾 

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛William: 👍🏾

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Sofia: 👍🏾

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Lucas: 👍🏾 

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Eliana: 👍🏾 

Rewind: The Top 20 Baby Names of 2016

With the viral "2026 Is The New 2016" trend everywhere, I decided to 🧐 look back 🔙 at the most 📈 popular 👶 baby 📛 names of ⏪ 2016! 

Without further ado, here are the 🔝 top 📛 names of 2016 the SSA lists 📄:

My favorite names are:

💙BOYS: 📛Daniel 📛Jackson 📛Alexander 📛Logan 📛James

💗GIRLS: 📛Scarlett 📛Elizabeth 📛Isabella 📛Mia 📛Madison

If 📛Noah and 📛Emma somehow steal the #1 top names spotlight from 📛Liam and 📛Olivia in 2026 — that will be pretty cool for them to reign again in the names realm — ⏩ 10 years later. 🤯

All About Alivea

📛Alivea is a name I never saw before recently (due to the sad story of Kaylee Goncalves (RIP) and her surviving sister Alivea Goncalves). Yet I've heard of this name all of my life originally as: 📛Olivia.

When I first saw Alivea I read it as: "Alive" "A" 🤦🏿‍♀️ but since that didn't make sense, I figured it was a misspelling of another 'A' name. 🤔 Then it hit me trying to pronounce it (🗣Alive-a... 🗣A-live-v-a) that ahhh!... Alivea is a variation of Olivia! 🔔 

Olivia originates from the Latin word "oliva" meaning "olive." Olivia is the #1 most popular baby name for girls as of 2024. But not only in the United States. Nameberry states, "Olivia ranks among the Top 10 girls' names in several English-speaking countries as well as in Spain, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, and Argentina." "Records of the name Olivia exist from as far back as 13th century England, but the name was popularized after Shakespeare used it for the name of the countess in Twelfth Night." 

Olivia is an old-fashioned name that's beautiful: to say (I may or may not have been saying it wrong all this time... pronouncing the 'O'... 🤷🏾‍♀️) and to look it. 🧐 I personally like 'O' names  because they're usually rare, especially for girls to have.  

Now 📛Alivea, actually seems to be a variation of another variation  of Olivia: 📛Alivia. I like Alivia a little more so than Alivea just because I can't unsee the "Alive" in Alivea... 😬 But then I like that Alivea is different and sort of difficult. 🤷🏾‍♀️ It's a name that upon sight, you either get it immediately or you're like me and go, "Huh?... Ohhh!" 😄  

📛Alivea is an interesting name variation and with it in the spotlight now, I'm curious 👀 to see if it will gain future popularity ⬆ on the first 📛name charts.📈    

⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛Aliveas:

📛Alivea Disney 🎥 (actress)

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Alivea: 👎/👍 OR 💓💓💓💓💓/10   

📰📛Alivea made it onto the ☔IRN📛 🏆 The Best & Worst 👎👎 📛Names of 2025 📃list!:

https://itsrainingnames.blogspot.com/2025/12/its-raining-names-best-worst-names-of.html

The Top 10 Baby Names of 2024

 The Social Security Administration released their list of Top 10 Baby Names of 2024!   

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I'm VERY surprised! 🤯 Most of the names are classic or "safe."🥱 At the least, I was expecting one odd-one-out name. 😤

These names are in fact popular, I've met/known thus far in my life: (1) ✔Noah, (3 or 4) ✔Jameses, (1) ✔Elijah, (1) ✔William, (1) ✔Mia, (2) ✔Evelyns and (1) ✔Sophia or ✔Sofia (I don't remember the spelling). 

If I had to choose one name from male and female sides as my favorite: I'd pick James (because I love all things James Bond) or Noah (because of its Biblical significance. Btw James and Elijah are Biblical names too.) and Mia or Olivia (Mia sounds cute and Olivia sounds sophisticated). 🤷🏾‍♀️

We're in 2025 and there's not one shocking or interesting name on the list? 🤨 I'm very disappointed. 🙁 Where is the creativity and originality? 🧐 I guess that's left mostly for celebrity parents. 😏

I wonder in ⏩2035 how will the list look? 🤔 Will it be similar? 😒 By then I'd love to see at least one uncommon, out-of-the-box name, for each side make it 🤞🏾 and I'd be happy with that. 😀 

📌For more info on ⏪past ✅popular 🍼baby 📛names 📃lists from SSA click here, click here or click here